AUTOPLAY WON'T WORK, SOME SOLUTIONS

                        written by: paranoidxe
                        email: paranoidtsi@hotmail.com



    [- ENSURE THAT SHELL HARDWARE DETECTION IS SET TO AUTOMATIC -]
Open services by going to:
- start, control panel (click classic view)
- double-click adminstrative tools
- double-click services
- find shell hardware detection service
- right-click it and select properties
- change/verify startup type is set to automatic
- click ok


    [-CHECK REGISTRY ENTRIES-]

- open regedit (start, run.., regedit, click ok)
- go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom
- in the right pane, look at DWORD value "AutoRun" make sure it is
  set to 1

- now go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\
  CurrentVersion\Winlogon\
- in the right pane, make sure dword value "allocatecdroms" is set
  to 0

- check HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
  Policies\Explorer
- modify DWORD "NoDriveTypeAutoRun" to read 00000091

- finally check HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
  Policies\Explorer\
- modify or delete dword "NoSaveSettings", make sure the value is set to 0

Reboot your machine, Autorun should function again.